The Slovak poet Mila HAUGOVA (IWP '96) is the 2020 recipient of the distinguished Vilenica International Literary Award.
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On 5/24/20, the US Embassy in Moscow celebrated Joseph Brodsky's 80th birthday with a collage of American poets reading his birthday poem "May 24, 1980" in the poet's self-translation. Chris Merrill, one of Brodsky's students, is among the readers.
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Véronique TADJO (IWP ’06) discusses the renewed interest in publishing rights control among Francophone writers in Africa.
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To mark Ireland’s corona-cancelled Leaving Cert graduation festivities, the poet Tom McCARTHY (IWP ’78) reads Paul Durcan’s elegy to side lines, “Sport.”
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The lovely poem-a-day for May 14, 2020, “Journey,” is by the nomadic Lidija DIMKOVSKA (IWP ’05), translated from the Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Patricia Marsh Štefanovska.
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Over at Harvard Review, poet Mary jo Bang glosses her translations from the German of Matthias Gőritz (IWP ’03).
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Alumni Usha K R (‘11) and Vivek Shanbhag (’16) in conversation earlier this year at the Bangalore International Center about fictional renderings of their hometown.
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On LitNet, novelist and physiotherapist ZP Dala (South Africa, ’16) writes about touching people with her words, and with her hands, in the time of COVID.
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The word is reaching us that the luminous Irish poet Eavan BOLAND (IWP '79, '09) has just died at home in Dublin. May the earth be light for her.
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A wide-ranging NYTimes Opinion piece on the use of pandemics--in novels, in history, and in the now--by Orhan PAMUK (IWP '85).
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